Antique Fine Art & Weaponry, Jan. 6th, 2024
Lot 106:
Lithographer J. T. Bowen Lithography Company, active 1834 – 1844 Publisher J. T. Bowen Lithography Company, active 1834 – 1844 Daniel Rice and James G. Clark. Size: 21 1/4" x 15 1/4".Lithograph with original hand coloring. From the folio edition of McKenney and Hall’s "History of the Indian Tribes of North America". As Superintendent of the Indian Trade Bureau, Thomas McKenney wanted to document the rapidly disappearing culture of the American natives. He activated the project, sponsored by the War Department, by commissioning writer James Hall and Charles Bird King, a renowned American portraitist. King painted the prominent Indians while they visited Washington D.C. as treaty delegates. Most of the original oil paintings were destroyed by fire in the Smithsonian Museum in 1865. These lithographs, published 1842-58, are all that remain and are still hailed as one of the best visual records of influential Native Americans of the nineteenth century. Wa-Kawn, first a follower of Tecumseh, later made many accommodations with the white man but died from alcohol consumption. His widow became an anti alcohol activist.~ . Detailed condition reports are not included in this catalog. For additional information, including condition reports, please contact us at [email protected]
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